10414. 'And offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings' means the worship offered by their own loves, and so by the delights belonging to those loves and by resulting falsities. This is clear from the meaning of 'burnt offerings' and 'sacrifices' as all worship in general, dealt with in 6905, 8936, 10042. By 'burnt offerings' worship springing from the good of love is meant, and by 'sacrifices' worship springing from the truths of faith, 8680, 10053, so that in the contrary sense worship springing from a person's own loves - that is, worship springing from the delights which belong to those loves and which are evil - is meant by 'burnt offerings', and worship springing from resulting falsities by 'sacrifices'. The expression 'worship offered by loves' is used because what a person worships is what he loves; and his love is what causes him to worship it.

8936. 'And shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your eucharistic offerings' means worship in particular according to each person's state of spiritual life. This is clear from the meaning of 'burnt offerings and sacrifices' as all inward worship in general, and also all the varieties of it in keeping with the different kinds of celestial and spiritual realities that are involved, that is, the different forms of the good of love to the Lord and the different truths of faith in Him, 922, 923, 2165, 2180, 2805, 2807, 2930, 3519, 6405, thus in keeping with every state of spiritual life in particular. This accounts for the institution of so many different kinds of sacrifices; that is, in addition to the daily sacrifices there were those offered on sabbath days, at feasts, new moons, inaugurations, and consecrations, as well as those for all guilt, sin, cleansing, healing, and childbirth. It also accounts for the use according to the occasion of different living creatures, such as oxen, young oxen, lambs, rams, she-goats, and he-goats, each of which meant a different kind of good that belongs to spiritual life, 1823, 2180, 3519.